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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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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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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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The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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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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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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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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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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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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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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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
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Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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