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    A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

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    A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

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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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    All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

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    America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

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    And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

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    A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

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    A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

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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.

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    As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

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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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    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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    Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

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    Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

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    Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

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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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    Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

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    During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

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    Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

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    Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

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    For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

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    From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, "I'm Bob Knight.

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    Good basketball always starts with good defense!

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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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    I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

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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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    I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

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    I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

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    I don't intend to retire.

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    I'd probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren't to somebody in the press. So that hasn't worked to my benefit.

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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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    If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

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    If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

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    I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

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    If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

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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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    If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

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    I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

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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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    I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

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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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    I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

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    I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

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    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.

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    In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

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    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.

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    I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

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    I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

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    It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

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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?