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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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