Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHTYou 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?”.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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.
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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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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.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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