220 Quotes by Bobby Knight

Don’t fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

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

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

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It’s conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

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

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.