My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhat 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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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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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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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