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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Massillon
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
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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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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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