If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I… — 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
I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense!… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against — 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
If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as… — 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
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move,… — 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
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
