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Bobby Knight

"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."

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"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."

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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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"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
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"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
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"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
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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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