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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
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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 I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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