Bob Knight

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.

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

Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don’t care if guys whine and complain about this or that. You know, no country affords its inhabitants the opportunities that the U.S.A. gives to its people.

Bob Knight

For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.

Bob Knight

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

Bob Knight

I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.

Bob Knight

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

Bob Knight

I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

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

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

Bob Knight