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 KNIGHTPeople change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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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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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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