Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHTWell, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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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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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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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 don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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You see we’ve got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he’s still coaching. I really don’t understand that.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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