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Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
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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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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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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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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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 have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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I don't intend to retire.
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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