A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Practice structure determines success.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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 don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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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