I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.
You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".
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.
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
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.
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
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.
I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.
You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
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.
We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, "I'm Bob Knight."
People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
