I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHTTo 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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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I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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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.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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