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 KNIGHTSon, 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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And I guarantee you, I’m a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don’t want to play tennis with me. The don’t want to play me in golf. They don’t want to f***g run with me
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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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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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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