The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHTA primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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