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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

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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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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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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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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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 don't intend to retire.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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