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
BOBBY KNIGHTLearn to do things right and then do them right every time.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
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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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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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 was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team.
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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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I don’t intend to retire.
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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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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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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