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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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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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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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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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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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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, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
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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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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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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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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
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Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
Bobby Knight