A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Positive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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.
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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 think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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