Bobby Knight Quotes


"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Basketball, Opponents, Play)

"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Chance, Giving, Now, Talk)

"When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!"
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Time, Kiss, Earth, Want)

"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Coaching, Interest, Pretty)

"Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Basketball, College, Past, Walking, Years)

"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Key, Will)

"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: People, Will)

"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one."
- Bobby Knight
"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Dumb, Regret)

"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."
- Bobby Knight
"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Succeed, Will)

"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, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: People, Basketball, Coaches, Fans, Students, Years)

"If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Wife, Son, Coach, Play, Will)

"I don't intend to retire."
- Bobby Knight
"I don't think I have ever been out of control."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Control)

"I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Now, Right)

"I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Will)

"And 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 Knight
(Related: Humor, Time, Coaching, First, Press, Sense)