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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Massillon
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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.
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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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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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