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.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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