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I don't intend to retire.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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