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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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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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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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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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 have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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