I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
BOBBY KNIGHTYou 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.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
-
-
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
The red I wear is Indiana’s red, not Moscow’s red. Indiana was here long before communism.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
BOBBY KNIGHT -
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
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 center. It’s the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I’ve always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, “I’m Bob Knight.”
BOBBY KNIGHT -
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
My 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 KNIGHT