A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
BOBBY KNIGHTAnd 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
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Practice structure determines success.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
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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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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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We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
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Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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 believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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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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Perform drills that force your players to think
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