Bobby Knight Quotes
Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
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.
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.
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.
I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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.
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.
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.
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.
People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
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.
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.
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.
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
