Bob Knight Quotes

• Well, I think it’s pretty much established that I just didn’t have any interest in coaching in the pros.

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• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

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• I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.

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• I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

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• I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

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• I don’t intend to retire.

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• 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.

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• As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

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• And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

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• As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

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• Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

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• 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.

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• Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

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• I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

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• I don’t think I have ever been out of control.

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• All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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• The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

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• People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

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• The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.

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• 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!

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Birth:	25th October, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Commentator

About

Bob Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio. He is a retired American basketball coach. Knight is best known as the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971–2000. He received National Coach of the Year honors four times and Big Ten Coach of the Year honors eight times. In 1984, he coached the USA men's Olympic team to a gold medal, becoming one of only three basketball coaches to win an NCAA title, NIT title, and an Olympic gold medal. In 2008, Knight joined ESPN as a men's college basketball studio analyst during Championship Week and for coverage of the NCAA Tournament. For the 2008–09 season, he joined ESPN as a part-time color commentator as well as continuing his studio analyst duties.

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