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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

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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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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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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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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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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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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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