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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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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 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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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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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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