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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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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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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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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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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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