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.
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
Competitive drills enhance quickness.
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.
Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
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.
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.
If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?