As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
BOBBY KNIGHTSo when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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