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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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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 just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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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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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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
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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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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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