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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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