Quote

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

Bobby Knight

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Sports
Sure
Art
Writing

More quotes by Bobby Knight

Image
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
Image
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.
Bobby Knight
Image
America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.
Bobby Knight
Image
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.
Bobby Knight
Image
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.
Bobby Knight
Image
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Bobby Knight
Image
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.
Bobby Knight
Image
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.
Bobby Knight
Image
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
Bobby Knight
Image
There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.
Bobby Knight
Image
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
Bobby Knight
Image
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
Image
If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
Bobby Knight
Image
I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
Bobby Knight
Image
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
Image
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
Bobby Knight
Image
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Bobby Knight
Image
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
Bobby Knight
Image
Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
Bobby Knight
Image
I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight