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Bobby Knight

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHT

Practice Reason Volleyball
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?”.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Numbers People Sports
I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Sports Thinking
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Night Practice
As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Games Team Winning
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaches Games Sports Teacher
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Knights Son
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Benches Brain Player
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Real Sports
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Losing People Sports
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Practice Team Want
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Confrontation Passion
Everybody hears, but few listen.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Everybody Listen
There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Ladders

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