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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
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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