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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.

Bobby Knight

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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them. And my question is, Then why don't you?.
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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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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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