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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?
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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.
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
I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
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
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
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
Bobby Knight
I don't think I have ever been out of control.
Bobby Knight
