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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.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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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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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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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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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