Bobby Knight Biography

Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight Famous Quotes


All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
 ~ Bobby Knight

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

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

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

I don't intend to retire.
 ~ Bobby Knight

I don't think I have ever been out of control.
 ~ Bobby Knight

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

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
 ~ Bobby Knight

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
 ~ Bobby Knight

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
 ~ Bobby Knight

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
 ~ Bobby Knight

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
 ~ Bobby Knight

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
 ~ Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
 ~ Bobby Knight

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
 ~ Bobby Knight

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
 ~ Bobby Knight

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
 ~ Bobby Knight

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
 ~ Bobby Knight