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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them. And my question is, Then why don't you?.
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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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 think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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