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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.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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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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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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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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