Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
BOBBY KNIGHTAnd 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
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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Practice structure determines success.
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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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