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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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 structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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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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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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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 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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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 don't intend to retire.
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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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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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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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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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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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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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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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I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
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