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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
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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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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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