Occupation: Basketball Coach Birth: October 25, 1940
America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us….
Offense is not equal opportunity.
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 ….
You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat ….
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..
I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. A….
If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some mon….
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take s….
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls..
As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games..
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 pot….
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach..
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature..
For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism..
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyab….
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper..
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court..
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 neve….
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….
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?.
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad..