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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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.
We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
I'll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.
I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.
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
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.
Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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.
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
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
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.
What the hell is a Republican? What the hell is a Democrat? I don't care. I've always urged people to make sure you vote for the right guy.
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.
I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.
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.
I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.
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.
I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
From my mother to people that I've known in my lifetime, they've tried to settle me down a little bit. Now I'm trying to do the same thing to my man Trump.
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
I've always been a great fan of the state of Pennsylvania. One of the people - one of the people that I admired the most in college athletics was Joe Paterno.
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.
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.
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.