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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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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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I don't intend to retire.
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