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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

Bobby Knight

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Running
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Basketball Country Defense Games People Sports
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Practice Reason Volleyball
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Basketball May
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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Basketball Defense Offense Two
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Art Country Games People Sports Writing
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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Country Games Jobs Media People Sports
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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Basketball Knights Son
You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Country Games Growing People Sports
It is better to anticipate than to react.
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Anticipate Better React
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Awards Favoritism Rewards
I don’t intend to retire.
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Basketball Country Games People Retiring Sports
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Morning Sports
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Jobs Winning

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