Quote:I ask for the many who keeps harping on this philosophy:

 

How do you achieve winning?

 

I don't know what it means, either.  

 

But I will say this: you play like you practice.   A coach has to make practice as hard as possible, as stressful as possible, as strict and competitive as possible.   A coach cannot tolerate mistakes in practice, because those mistakes will inevitably take place in the game on Sunday.  

 

I went to Indiana during the Bobby Knight era, and the players all said, practice was so much harder than the games themselves.   They could always execute successfully in the pressure of an NCAA tournament game, because practice was so pressurized, they were used to it.   Now, Bobby Knight is an extreme example, but the principle holds.

---