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I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.

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Michael Jordan, Been, Sure, Michael

If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best basketball player, let's get Bill Russell. If we want the guy who can do the best job for the United States - let's get Donald Trump.

- Bobby Knight

United, Trump, Donald, Brown

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.

- Bobby Knight

Average, Cut, Coached, Dropping

I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump.

- Bobby Knight

Next, Trump, Donald, Fiddling

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.

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Drop, Having, Lives, Truman

I've always been a great fan of the state of Pennsylvania. One of the people - one of the people that I admired the most in college athletics was Joe Paterno.

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College, Always, Admired, Pennsylvania

I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way from San Diego to Houston. We've got military bases all over the country. We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt to the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.

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Doing, Country, Some, Bases

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

- Bobby Knight

Very, Positive Results, Dad, Anytime

What the hell is a Republican? What the hell is a Democrat? I don't care. I've always urged people to make sure you vote for the right guy.

- Bobby Knight

Republican, Always, Sure, Urged

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.

- Bobby Knight

Students, Been, I Think, Cooperative

I don't intend to retire.

- Bobby Knight

Intend, Retire

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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Career, Tech, Teams, National Championship

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.

- Bobby Knight

Wife, Play, Will, Recruit

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

- Bobby Knight

Winning, His, Concentrated, Prepares

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

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Always, Other, Almighty, Basketball Team

I'll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.

- Bobby Knight

Will, Trump, Donald, Benghazi

I think what Mr. Trump has is this - he has experiences. He has put more things together in businesses around the United States, around the world. And he's had some things that didn't go exactly right. He's been able to find a way to resurrect those things. He's been able to make some changes.

- Bobby Knight

Some, Been, Trump, Businesses

Trump is not national: he's international. He's known all over the world. He has established businesses all over, and he has given jobs to thousands and thousands of people all over the world with these businesses that he has put together.

- Bobby Knight

Over, Established, Given, Businesses

From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think it's ludicrous the way they take kids away that are certainly not prepared to play.

- Bobby Knight

College, Play, Very, Standpoint

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.

- Bobby Knight

College, Play, Minor, Minor League

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.

- Bobby Knight

Sense Of Humor, Over, Been, Conferences

We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.

- Bobby Knight

Need, Trump, Donald, None

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

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Basketball, Always, Four, Maintained

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

- Bobby Knight

Concerned, Trump, About, Honest People

A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something, the kids understood exactly what I meant and what I wanted.

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Big, Meant, Big Part, Understood

Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.

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Business, Trump, Donald, None

I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.

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Conservative, Trump, Donald, None

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.

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Game, Play, Some, Feelings

I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish.

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Basketball, Big, Had, Group

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

- Bobby Knight

Doing, I Think, Rather, Prone

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