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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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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 think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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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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