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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
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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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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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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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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