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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
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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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'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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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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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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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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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America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
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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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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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