A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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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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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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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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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven’t called walking for 20 years, now you don’t know what it is. When you call walking, you’re about half right.
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
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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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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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I don’t think I have ever been out of control.
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