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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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 don't intend to retire.
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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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 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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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 think I have ever been out of control.
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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