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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.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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 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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them. And my question is, Then why don't you?.
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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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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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