Bob Knight quotes

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
- Bob Knight

Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can’t, then they can’t play.
- Bob Knight

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
- Bob Knight

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
- Bob Knight

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
- Bob Knight

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
- Bob Knight

It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
- Bob Knight

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

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
- Bob Knight

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

It is better to anticipate than to react.
- Bob Knight

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
- Bob 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.
- Bob Knight

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
- Bob 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.
- Bob Knight

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
- Bob Knight

Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
- Bob Knight

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
- Bob Knight

I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
- Bob Knight

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
- Bob Knight

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
- Bob Knight