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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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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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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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