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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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 don't think I have ever been out of control.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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