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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
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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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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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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