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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

Bobby Knight

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Firsts Thinking
The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Long People Red
As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Real Sports
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Driven Games Hell People Sports
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Change People Years
Practice structure determines success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Coaching Practice
I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Country Games People Sports Volleyball
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Practice Running
Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Player Thinking
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Accuracy Country Games Media People Simple Sports
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Kids Morning Running
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coach Coaching Should
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Passing People Practice Stop
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Desire Failure
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball May
Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Hands Selfish

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

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