Bobby Knight's Quotes
Born: 1940-10-25
Profession: Coach
Nation: American
Biography of 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!
Tags: Here, Kiss, TimeThe will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Tags: Motivational, Prepare, SucceedYou don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Tags: Basketball, Game, SportsThe key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Tags: Everybody, Key, WinAll of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Tags: Learn, Second, WritePeople change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
Tags: Bad, Change, GoodI've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
Tags: Best, Predicted, SaidWhy talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
Tags: Giving, Said, WhyI don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
Tags: Morning, Regret, WaitAs his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
Tags: Games, Team, WinningI have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Tags: Basketball, Four, PhysicalI don't think I have ever been out of control.
Tags: ControlIf 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.
Tags: Son, Tell, WifeI'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
Tags: Looking, Place, TeacherWalking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Tags: Basketball, College, PastWell, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
Tags: Coaching, Interest, PrettyAnd 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.
Tags: Humor, Sense, TimeVisit partners pages
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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.
Tags: Career, Times, WinningAs 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.
Tags: Basketball, Real, Said