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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"It is better to anticipate than to react."

- Bobby Knight

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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"

- Bobby Knight

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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."

- Bobby Knight

Hard Work

"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."

- Bobby Knight

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

- Bobby Knight

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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