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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
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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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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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'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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