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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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 have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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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 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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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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