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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
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Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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