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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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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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.
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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