A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
BOBBY KNIGHTI would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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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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Superiority and success doesn’t favor good effort or self-esteem… The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Perform drills that force your players to think
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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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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You can’t imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, “God, you treat those assholes like I’d like to treat them.” And my question is, “Then why don’t you?”.
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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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