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.
BOBBY KNIGHTA great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Practice structure determines success.
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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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