I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHTTo me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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’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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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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