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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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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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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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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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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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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 would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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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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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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We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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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