I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHTPerform drills that force your players to think
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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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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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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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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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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