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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
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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 structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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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 don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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