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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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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 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 don't intend to retire.
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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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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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