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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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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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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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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 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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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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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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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