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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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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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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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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.
Bobby Knight
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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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