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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.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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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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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 will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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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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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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