Bobby Knight Quotes

If you do anything in any way, whenever or wherever, that I think is detrimental to the good of this basketball team, to the school, or to yourself, I'll handle it as I see fit.

• sports
• coaching

Understand the context.

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

• coaching

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We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

• sports
• preparation
• practice

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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.

• sports
• coaching

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It's always to your advantage if the other guys are worried more about what you're doing than what they want to do.

• sports

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From a coaching standpoint, the greatest fear I've ever had - and it doesn't take a Final Four to bring it out - is that in some way I might not have prepared my team as well as I could have.

• coaching

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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.

• sports
• coaching

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Players who know how to play have to be able to come to you with a suggestion.

• coaching

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I've always had an ass-to-the-brain theory - when a player's ass gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, "Get me off of here."

• coaching
• motivation

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