Quotes about basket
basketball athlete thinking
I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are. Bobby Knight
basketball may indiana
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
basketball selfish hands
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.
basketball athlete son
If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
basketball running winning
If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.
basketball practice coaching
Practice structure determines success.
basketball thinking
I don't think I have ever been out of control.
basketball people cookies
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.
basketball running athlete
I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me
basketball growing-up kids
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.
basketball running team
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
basketball desire trying
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
basketball games done
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
basketball retiring
I don't intend to retire.
basketball practice preparation
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
basketball player college
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
basketball sports son
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.
basketball practice easy
My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.
basketball kids defense
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
basketball sports past
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
basketball defense good-basketball
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
basketball thinking player
Perform drills that force your players to think
basketball team opportunity
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.
basketball running practice
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
basketball moving heart
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.
basketball son names
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.
basketball simple player
Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
basketball night practice
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
basketball sports morning
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
basketball games pressure
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
basketball motivational-sports winning
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
basketball offense-and-defense two
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.
basketball sports real
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.