Bobby Knight Quotes

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

Time, Down, Here

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight

Win, Few, Prepare

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight

Motivational, Important, Succeed

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight

Sports, Game, Basketball

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Bobby Knight

Important, Win, Everybody

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

Learn, Write, Second

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Bobby Knight

Four, Physical, Mental

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

Change, Good, Bad

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
Bobby Knight

Giving, Why, Said

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
Bobby Knight

Winning, Team, Games

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

Morning, Regret, Wait

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Bobby Knight

Basketball, Four, Physical

I don't think I have ever been out of control.
Bobby Knight

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
Bobby Knight

Best, Said, Predicted

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

Wife, Play, Son

I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight

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

Humor, Time, Sense

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Bobby Knight

Winning, Career, Times

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

Teacher, Place, Looking

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight

Past, Basketball, College

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

Pretty, Interest, Coaching

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

Real, Basketball, Said

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: October 25, 1940

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