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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
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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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 think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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 have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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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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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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