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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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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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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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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill 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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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