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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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 don't think I have ever been out of control.
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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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