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It is better to anticipate than to react.

Bobby Knight

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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Definition Follow Ingredient Parent Time
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Basketball Practice Running
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Chance Country Games Giving People Sports
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Inspirational Ladders
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought… about potential pitfalls.
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Fixing Needs Pitfalls
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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Home Running Winning
To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Sports Team
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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Balls Play Sports
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Basketball Running Team
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
BOBBY KNIGHT

College Knight Teaching
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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Basketball Jobs Team
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.
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Kids Morning Running
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Practice Reason Volleyball
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Basketball Game Men Passing
Perform drills that force your players to think
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Basketball Player Thinking
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
Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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Basketball Opportunity Team
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Mistake Team Victory
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Knowing Way
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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Country Games Guy People Sports Years
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Basketball Practice Preparation
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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Basketball Class People
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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Basketball Country Games People Sports
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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Deeper Higher Phd
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Basketball Country Games People Sports
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Basketball Morning Sports
Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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Self Esteem Success Winning

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