The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHTI, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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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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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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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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