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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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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.
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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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