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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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