Bobby Knight Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.”

“During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.”

“My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'”

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

“I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.”

“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.'”

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

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

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

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