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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.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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