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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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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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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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I don't intend to retire.
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
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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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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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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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