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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: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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