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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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I don't intend to retire.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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