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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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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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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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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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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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Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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