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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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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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