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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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