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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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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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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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.
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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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