The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHTIf 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.
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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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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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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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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Practice structure determines success.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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