I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
BOBBY KNIGHTA primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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