Bobby Knight Quotes

"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one."

"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."

"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."

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

"If you listen to the guys up in the stands, pretty soon you’ll be up there sitting with them."

"I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can."

"A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against."

"It's always to your advantage if the other guys are worried more about what you're doing than what they want to do."

"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!"

"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."

"From a coaching standpoint, the greatest fear I've ever had - and it doesn't take a Final Four to bring it out - is that in some way I might not have prepared my team as well as I could have."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com