Bobby Knight Quotes

Get ready to read these Bobby Knight quotes and see the way he saw the basketball world. No doubt, we're dealing with a coach who can easily lose his temper if things aren't going well.

By many, he's been regarded as the most demanding coach and a teacher who requires disciplined and focused players playing for him.

The appointment of West Point as a coach, made him the youngest coach in college history at the age of 24.

He loves winning games and has an astounding NCAA record (1 championship as a player in Ohio in 1960 and 3 as a coach of Indiana - 1976, 1981, 1987). In 1976 he had a perfect 32-0 season. Let's see some of his crazy and interesting quotes..

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

"The most susceptible guy in any gambling scheme is an official, without any question. I mean, if we only knew the truth about games that were controlled by officials having gambling interests, I think it would be amazing."

"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."

"I don't think I have ever been out of control." - if you ever doubt that Bobby Knight quotes, check out this video (especially when the video comes down to 40 seconds)..

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

"Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years."

"I stood up, unzipped my pants, lowered my shorts and placed my bare ass on the window. That's the last thing I wanted those people to see of me."

"I told him to take a picture of his testicles so he'd have something to remember them by if he ever took another shot like the last one."

"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!"

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

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

"God couldn't care less if we win or not. He is not going to parachute in through the roof of this building and score when we need points."

"At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right."

"Everyone wants to be on a winning team, but no one wants to come to practice."

"If you're not careful, you can get a grossly overinflated opinion about your popularity."

"I stood up, unzipped my pants, lowered my shorts and placed my bare ass on the window. That's the last thing I wanted those people to see of me."

"If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy"

“People take Patton — a tough, demanding individualist — and equate him with me. Well, that's not what I try to imitate. He sacrificed people. My basic idea is ‘Let's live and fight tomorrow.

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"I fortunately have never worried about irritating people."

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