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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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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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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 have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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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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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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If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
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