A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
BOBBY KNIGHTPassing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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.
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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.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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.’
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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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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I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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.”
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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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