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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.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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 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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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