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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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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 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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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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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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