220 Quotes by Bobby Knight

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began.

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

I don’t think I have ever been out of control.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.

I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.

Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we’ve done here so far like he will.

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

Perform drills that force your players to think.

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices.