To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
BOBBY KNIGHTAll the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t intend to retire.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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