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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: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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I don't intend to retire.
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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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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 have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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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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Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
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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 always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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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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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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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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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 sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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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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