You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
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… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs,… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've… — Bobby Knight Copy Share
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and… — Bobby Knight Copy Share
There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are… — Bobby Knight Copy Share
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game. — Bobby Knight Copy Share
The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. — Bobby Knight Copy Share
I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team. — Bobby Knight Copy Share
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls. — Bobby Knight Copy Share
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. — Bobby Knight Copy Share
Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see… — Bobby Knight Copy Share
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how… — Bobby Knight Copy Share
