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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: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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 universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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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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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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