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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?.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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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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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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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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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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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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