Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHTThere are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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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.
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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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