The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
Bobby KnightPlayers must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
Bobby KnightI've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Bobby KnightI think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.
Bobby Knight