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

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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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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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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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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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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