A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHTSo 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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