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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: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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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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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 don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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