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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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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 change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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