Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
Bobby Knight
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
The General
Little
Save
Make
Basketball
People
Ought
Week
Cutbacks
Teach
Universities
Class
Faculty
Money
Administration
Littles
University
More quotes by Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Bobby Knight
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
Bobby Knight
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
Bobby Knight
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
Bobby Knight
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
Bobby Knight
If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
Bobby Knight
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
Bobby Knight
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
Bobby Knight
I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.
Bobby Knight
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.
Bobby Knight
Everybody hears, but few listen.
Bobby Knight
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
Bobby Knight
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Bobby Knight
We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
Bobby Knight
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
Bobby Knight
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
Bobby Knight