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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
Bobby Knight
Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
Bobby Knight
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?
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
In my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, Who are you going to satisfy with that? And he looks back at her and says, Me. That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
Bobby Knight
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
Bobby Knight
I'm not sure sports writing is an art.
Bobby Knight
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
Bobby Knight
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
Bobby Knight
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
Bobby Knight
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
Bobby Knight