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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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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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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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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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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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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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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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