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.
BOBBY KNIGHTPerform drills that force your players to think
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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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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I don’t intend to retire.
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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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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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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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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