The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHTGood basketball always starts with good defense!
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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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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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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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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