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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: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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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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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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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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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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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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