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

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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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.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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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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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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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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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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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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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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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