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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: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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.
Bobby Knight
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
Bobby Knight
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Bobby Knight
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
Bobby Knight
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
Bobby Knight
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Bobby Knight
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
