The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat.… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP,… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. — 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
