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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: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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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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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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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