The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHTFrom 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.”
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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