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
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
Competitive drills enhance quickness.
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.
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
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.
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
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!
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.
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them