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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.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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