I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
BOBBY KNIGHTFailure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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All 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.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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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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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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