Bobby Knight Quotes
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We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.
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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
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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.
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From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think it's ludicrous the way they take kids away that are certainly not prepared to play.
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I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.
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Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.
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From my mother to people that I've known in my lifetime, they've tried to settle me down a little bit. Now I'm trying to do the same thing to my man Trump.
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I don't intend to retire.
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I'll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.
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I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.
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Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
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I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
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I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.
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I'm tired of this party stuff, where we're going to do what's right for this party, or we're going to do what's right for that party. Let's just get together and do what's right for the country. I think that's what all of us want.
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I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that - you know, he just wants to be real quiet.
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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.
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I don't think I have ever been out of control.
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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!
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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There are two real keys to winning. You've got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with good players. That is number one. Number two is, when we are playing, let's say we are playing Michigan, and they had a really good press: we've got to solve that press.
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
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When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.