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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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 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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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