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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: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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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 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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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 have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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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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