The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
BOBBY KNIGHTThis is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they’ll get rid of me, too.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Offense is not equal opportunity
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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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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 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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The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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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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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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