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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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Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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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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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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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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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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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