Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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 don’t intend to retire.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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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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As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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 tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I’m sure not fat.
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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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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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