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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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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 don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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