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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
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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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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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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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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