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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.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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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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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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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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 don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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