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

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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