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Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
The General
Hears
Basketball
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Everybody

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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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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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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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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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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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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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