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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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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.'
Bobby Knight
In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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.
Bobby Knight
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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
Bobby Knight
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.
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