Bobby Knight Quotes
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
If you do anything in any way, whenever or wherever, that I think is detrimental to the good of this basketball team, to the school, or to yourself, I'll handle it as I see fit.
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against.
It's always to your advantage if the other guys are worried more about what you're doing than what they want to do.
From a coaching standpoint, the greatest fear I've ever had - and it doesn't take a Final Four to bring it out - is that in some way I might not have prepared my team as well as I could have.
To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.
Players who know how to play have to be able to come to you with a suggestion.
I've always had an ass-to-the-brain theory - when a player's ass gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, "Get me off of here."
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