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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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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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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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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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 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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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