Bobby Knight
Bobby Knight
Robert Montgomery "Bob" Knightis a retired American basketball coach. Nicknamed "The General", Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games, the most all-time at the time of his retirement and currently second all-time, behind Pat Summitt, and behind his former player and assistant coach Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University. Knight is best known as the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000. He also coached at Texas Techand at Army...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 October 1940
CityMassillon, OH
CountryUnited States of America
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against
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.
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.'
We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
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.
I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.