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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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