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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.

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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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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 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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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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