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Good basketball always starts with good defense!

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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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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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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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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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