Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
BOBBY KNIGHTWhen 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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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 great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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