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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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