Football Quotes by Bobby Knight

Offense is not equal opportunity

— Bobby Knight

Perform drills that force your players to think

— Bobby Knight

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

— Bobby Knight

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

— Bobby Knight

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

— Bobby Knight

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

— Bobby Knight

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

— Bobby Knight

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

— Bobby Knight

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

— 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

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

— Bobby Knight

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

— Bobby Knight

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

I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the…

— Bobby Knight

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

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

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

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and…

— Bobby Knight

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions…

— Bobby Knight

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him…

— Bobby Knight

I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move,…

— Bobby Knight

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps…

— Bobby Knight

There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with…

— Bobby Knight

Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every…

— Bobby Knight

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as…

— Bobby Knight

If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel…

— Bobby Knight

“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but not everyone…

— Bobby Knight

“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.”

— Bobby Knight

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

— Bobby Knight

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

— Bobby Knight

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

— Bobby Knight

I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.

— 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

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

— Bobby Knight

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense!…

— Bobby Knight

A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

— Bobby Knight

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

— Bobby Knight

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

— Bobby Knight

Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

— Bobby Knight

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

— Bobby Knight