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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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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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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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We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
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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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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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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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