“A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.” PeopleGivingWellsGoalTeachingHavensTaughtAdvantagePrimariesCompetitors Author:Bobby Knight
“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 them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".” PeopleSaidSportsNumbersImagineTreatsCome UpProfessional Sports Author:Bobby Knight
“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” PeopleMotivationalWinningSportsBasketballMotivational SportsWill To Win Author:Bobby Knight
“People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.” PeopleYearsChangeSituationPeople ChangingPeople Don't Change Author:Bobby Knight
“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.” PeopleThinkingYearsHas BeensSaidRealSportsFansStudentsInvolvedBasketballCoachesVentureCooperativesAdministrators Author:Bobby Knight
“I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.” PeopleWorryWorriedIrritatingIrritating People Author:Bobby Knight
“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 perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.” PeopleMenJobsResponsibilityTeamBasketballBallsCoachingBasketball CoachingPerimeter Author:Bobby Knight
“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.” PeopleIfsWayWantInspirationalWellsI CanRunningPurposeWinningPlayerBasketballBeatsPrimariesOperationsCheatBasketball PlayerIndianaBallgameBest BasketballIndianapolis Author:Bobby Knight
“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.” PeopleShouldLastsNamesSonBasketballCoachesKnights Author:Bobby Knight
“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.” PeopleWantBasketballMilkChampionshipCookiesBannerIndianaNational Championships Author:Bobby Knight
“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 enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.” PeopleNeedsGamesLeadershipPracticeBasketballPreparationNbaEnjoyableInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball Game Author:Bobby Knight
“I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.” PeopleThinkingBelieveWellsHappensTomorrowRight ThingMake It HappenDoing The Right ThingBetter Days Author:Bobby Knight
“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.” PeopleIfsWantLittlesClassTeachWeekOughtBasketballUniversityAdministrationFacultyLittle MoneyCutbacks Author:Bobby Knight
“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 potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.” PeopleThinkingWellsPersonsImportantShowsMightSportsGoalAbilityPlayerTeamBecoming Author:Bobby Knight
