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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
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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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 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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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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.
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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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.
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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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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