My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
BOBBY KNIGHTPeople change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that’s only one person’s opinion. These guys sometimes believe they’ve been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn’t the case.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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’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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Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
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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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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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Practice structure determines success.
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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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