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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: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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Basketball
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Four
Inspirational
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Mental

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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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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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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'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
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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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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.
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