Bobby Knight Quotes (61 Quotes)

This isn't nuclear science. When he made a 3, I left him in a little longer. Then he hit another 3, and I left him in a little longer. Then he made a hell of a drive, and I left him in a little longer.

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

I think Davie County is going to grow despite what anybody does. That's why we need to have the infrastructure that's compatible with that growth.... If it's feasible, we don't want to see any more houses on septic tanks.

Parcells and I have learned a lot of things during a lot of years since we first met. But being graceful about losing has never been one of them.

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

Marsha has done a great job with her teams over her entire career at Texas Tech. Her teams have set a very high standard on how the game of basketball should be played.

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

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

I don't want to bust my expletive all the time and have it turned over to somebody who has no idea what they hell they're doing or knows what coaching at Tech is all about, ... This way, it has somebody coming into it that is conducive to Tech and can maintain and improve things.

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

The increase in the awareness for proper corporate governance has been positive. It still seems we're punishing the cops for not having caught all of the bank robbers before they robbed the bank.

At the half, I felt like we played well enough to stay in the game. I thought we were going to come back out in the second half and shoot a lot better than we did.

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

They're a very good basketball team. We're not a very good basketball team.

I like Huggins a lot, ... and I respect him as a basketball coach. Make sure you write that.

I told him to take a picture of his testicles so he'd have something to remember them by if he ever took another shot like the last one.

I would have been an absolute moron, an absolute moron, with the things that have been laid down on me, to grab a kid in public and curse at a kid in public as apparently it's been said that I did,

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.

I hope that thing is on the way to a full mend.

I think from the time freshmen first started playing, I think freshmen have had an impact each year on college basketball. I don't think in any way it's different than what's transpired before.

We don't have any physical description. We don't know how many subjects were involved, which is mind boggling, with all those people around,

Tucker is impressive without his basketball skills because he's one of those guys that makes other people play better. Tucker has the kind of enthusiasm that Ronald Ross has.

He said he didn't feel like he was helping the team and he didn't want to play anymore. I told him I was sorry it didn't work out for him. He said he didn't blame me, but I always blame myself when a player doesn't get out of it what we thought he could.

We've had more downs that we've normally encountered. In the whole spectrum you can fit into from being very, very good to being very, very bad, and we're somewhere in the middle of that. ... Had I known the outcome at the beginning of the season, I would have been disappointed with it.

It was as good an individual performance, particularly under pressure, I've had as a coach. This was a game that went right down to the wire with Jackson scoring 41.

The state clearly could use another 100 to 150 million a year in revenue and I don't think there's much patience left with raising taxes.

The guy had no clue, ... But that was irrelevant. If (UC president Nancy Zimpher) didn't like what she saw, it's her prerogative to change it. Whether she's right or wrong doesn't matter. That's something in coaching you have to understand.

You know, we taught you how to play basketball and baseball, and now you're teaching us how to make steel and build cars.

I don't intend to retire.

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

I have always thought that you start out the season trying to win the national championship. When that's eliminated, you are trying to go to the NCAA tournament. ... Our goal was to win a game in (the Big 12) tournament and then see what we can do from there.

It's a tough thing for Baylor to have to start out playing a game like this. Right off the bat, they jumped on us. I thought they started really well.

I'm not a great positive thinker. By that I mean I prepare for things that can go wrong. In golf, if you think about things that can go wrong, you're in trouble.

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!

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.

It was a tough thing for Baylor to start out playing like this. No matter how much they worked in practice and tried to simulate playing on the road, it can't be done. They were under a tremendous handicap.

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.

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

We're going to be successful one way or the other. We're going to give it one more year in Topeka. In all likelihood we'll build it on the reservation on the northeast tip of the state.

This Event is a good test for any program because there are teams in it every year who compete for the national championship. Plus it's a great chance to support the fight against cancer. There aren't any of us anywhere that haven't been touched in some way by cancer.

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.

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.

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

We were on the verge of having a really good team. That was my only disappointment,

We had some really big plays at the end. We had a chance at Colorado (a 66-64 loss on Feb. 11), but we didn't make the plays. Today we made the plays. Maybe Nebraska makes the plays the next time.

There's some good guys like (Harry) Carson and (Leonard) Marshall you keep telling me about, and you keep getting on their (expletive).

America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

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

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.