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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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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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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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Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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I don't intend to retire.
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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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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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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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