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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.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
Bobby Knight
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
Bobby Knight
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
Bobby Knight
I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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