The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHTAll 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 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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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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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