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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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