Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
BOBBY KNIGHTFrom 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.”
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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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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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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