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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

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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
The General
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Massachusetts
Indiana
Invented
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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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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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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.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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I don't intend to retire.
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People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
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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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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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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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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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