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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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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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