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
BOBBY KNIGHTThe biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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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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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.
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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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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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