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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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 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.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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