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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 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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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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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 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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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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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