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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
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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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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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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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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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 recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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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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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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I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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I don't intend to retire.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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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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