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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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