Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHTIf you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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 think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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 of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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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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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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