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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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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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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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Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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