Quotes by Bobby Knight

“ Evervybody hears, but few listen”

“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”

“The will to succeed is important, but whats more important is the will to prepare.”

“The key is not the will to win . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”

“Everyone wants to be on a winning team,but no one wants to come to practice”

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

“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”

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

“I dont have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.”

“If I were in charge Id drug test all you sons of b*tches, not just the athletes.”

“If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then wed beat everybody.”

“Theres some good guys like (Harry) Carson and (Leonard) Marshall you keep telling me about, and you keep getting on their (expletive).”

“You know, we taught you how to play basketball and baseball, and now youre teaching us how to make steel and build cars.”

In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was It will be O.K. I would wonder, How the hell is it going to be O.K.? The worst word in the English language is hope.

You dont play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.

Im an unemployed teacher right now and Im looking for a place to teach.

Im a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

I dont have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.