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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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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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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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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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