The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHTWhen 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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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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.
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From 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.”
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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Practice structure determines success.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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