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?”.
BOBBY KNIGHTI always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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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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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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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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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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