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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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.
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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
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You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them. And my question is, Then why don't you?.
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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