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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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Championship
Nobody
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Everybody
Practice
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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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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
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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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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 I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
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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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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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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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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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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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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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