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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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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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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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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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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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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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