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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I don't intend to retire.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
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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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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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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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.
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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 don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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