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.

Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you..

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something ….

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, admin….

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..

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices.

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..

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone..

Good basketball always starts with good defense!.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player..

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb..

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontationa….

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach..

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass..

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros..

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend….

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism..

It is better to anticipate than to react..

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes..

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things..

Everybody hears, but few listen..