Bobby Knight Quotes
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We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
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I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.
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During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
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People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
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You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
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I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
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My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.
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If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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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 what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
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I'd probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren't to somebody in the press. So that hasn't worked to my benefit.
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Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
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Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
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The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
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Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against
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Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
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Good basketball always starts with good defense!
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
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