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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: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Robert Montgomery Knight
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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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Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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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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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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