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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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You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them. And my question is, Then why don't you?.
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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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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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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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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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