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.
BOBBY KNIGHTTo me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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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?”.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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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.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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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