The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHTOffense 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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I’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I’m not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I’d probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren’t to somebody in the press. So that hasn’t worked to my benefit.
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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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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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