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.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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When we’re playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man’s job to stop the center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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 don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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