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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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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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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'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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