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To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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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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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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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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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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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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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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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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