As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHTAs his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
BOBBY KNIGHTPositive wish: ‘The sun will come out tomorrow.’ Negative reality: ‘Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
BOBBY KNIGHTTo me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation
BOBBY KNIGHTI always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
BOBBY KNIGHTYou are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t think I have ever been out of control.
BOBBY KNIGHTYour biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.
BOBBY KNIGHTBS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
BOBBY KNIGHTThis 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.
BOBBY KNIGHTMy overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
BOBBY KNIGHTVictory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
BOBBY KNIGHTWe don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
BOBBY KNIGHTI don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHTFor me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
BOBBY KNIGHTAnd 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.
BOBBY KNIGHTThe biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
BOBBY KNIGHT