Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHTYou are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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