Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHTWe 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?
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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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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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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