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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
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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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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 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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I don't intend to retire.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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