Top 153 Quotes & Sayings by Bobby Knight - Page 3

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

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 money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

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.

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

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'm not sure sports writing is an art.

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

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.

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.

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. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

Good basketball always starts with good defense!

We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

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 to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

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."

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

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 to think of themselves as better than they are.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

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.

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

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

Competitive drills enhance quickness.