Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. — Bobby Knight Championship Copy Share Image
For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. — Bobby Knight Basketball Copy Share Image
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you. — Bobby Knight Animal Copy Share Image
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism. — Bobby Knight Communism Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. — Bobby Knight Basketball Copy Share Image
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what… — 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 Athlete Copy Share Image
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral… — Bobby Knight Basketball 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 Basketball Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think… — Bobby Knight Baseball 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 Administration Copy Share Image
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros. — Bobby Knight Coaching Copy Share Image
I'm tired of this party stuff, where we're going to do what's right for this party, or we're going to do what's… — Bobby Knight Country 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
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 want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the… — Bobby Knight Basketball Copy Share Image
Trump is not national: he's international. He's known all over the world. He has established businesses all over, and he has given… — Bobby Knight Business Copy Share Image
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have… — Bobby Knight Coaching Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana. — Bobby Knight Basketball Copy Share Image
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning… — Bobby Knight Career 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 Basketball Copy Share Image
I'll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: "You've got to be a con… — 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… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I've always been a great fan of the state of Pennsylvania. One of the people - one of the people that I… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit… — Bobby Knight Conservative 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
A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I… — 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 Basketball Copy Share Image
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game. — Bobby Knight Basketball Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan. — 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
I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player… — Bobby Knight NBA Copy Share Image
