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.
BOBBY KNIGHTA great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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Offense is not equal opportunity
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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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’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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