Quotes by Bobby Knight

• People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
• You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
• Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
• 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!
• Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.
• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
• The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
• Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
• Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
• I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
• All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
• The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
• 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.
• 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.
• I don't intend to retire.
• I don't think I have ever been out of control.
• I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
• I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
• 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.
• It's not the will to win that matters, everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.