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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: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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 don't think I have ever been out of control.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
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I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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