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I don't think I have ever been out of control.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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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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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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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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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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