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.
Bobby KnightWhen 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.
Bobby KnightDuring 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.
Bobby KnightFailure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby KnightIt 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.
Bobby Knight