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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
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: You've got to be a con man. I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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