Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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We 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?
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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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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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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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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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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