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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

Bobby Knight

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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Passing People Practice Stop
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
BOBBY KNIGHT

Practice Reason Volleyball
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Art Country Games People Sports Writing
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Knights Son
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Guarantees Long Towns
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Morning Sports
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Discipline Leadership Sports
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Awards Favoritism Rewards
Practice structure determines success.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Coaching Practice
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?
BOBBY KNIGHT

Deal Defeat Game might Thing
It is better to anticipate than to react.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Anticipate Better React
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.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Coaching Sports Team
Perform drills that force your players to think
BOBBY KNIGHT

Basketball Player Thinking
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
BOBBY KNIGHT

People Worried Worry
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Believe People Thinking
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
BOBBY KNIGHT

Competition Giving People Teaching

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

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