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Football Quotes by Bobby Knight

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A quote about making practice harder than a game stresses that preparation beats natural talent. Other statements note that winning comes from few mistakes and good players, not just desire. A further idea highlights defense as teamwork, teaching players to help each other on the court.

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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

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Perform drills that force your players to think

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Offense is not equal opportunity

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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

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Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

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Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

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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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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

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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!…

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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

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I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him…

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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…

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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions…

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From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think…

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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…

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When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP,…

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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…

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If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best…

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If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel…

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If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as…

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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…

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I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps…

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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,…

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There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with…

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“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but not everyone…

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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

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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…

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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

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The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

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You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

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I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.

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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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The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

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As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

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My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and…

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The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

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…

Everybody hears, but few listen.

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how…