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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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Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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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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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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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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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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