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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
I don't intend to retire.