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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them. And my question is, Then why don't you?.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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