Bobby Knight Quotes About Basketball
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People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
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My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
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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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I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
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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 hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
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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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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
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