Basketball Quote by Bobby Knight

The most important thing is they have to know why we do things and when. A lot of players are playing intuitively, and I…

— Louis van Gaal

By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will…

— Jonathan Agnew

I need players to start thinking for themselves.

— Guus Hiddink

You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you…

— Carlo Ancelotti

There's nothing like doing in-game stuff that you can't get from drills. You're guarding somebody, you're reacting, you're getting a rebound and trying to…

— Gordon Hayward

I have been doing this for a long ,and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to…

— Rafael Benitez

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

— John Wooden

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

— Bobby Knight

When you're in the game, you have an active control over what happens every single play. You know what's going wrong, what the coaches…

— Jason Kelce

How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!

— Allen Iverson

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points…

— Richard Gough

I try to anticipate the ball well. That's something that's helped me since when I was a kid. Just learning to anticipate and read…

— Andy Murray