A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHTWe should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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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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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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