I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

When 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.

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

I'd probably be better off without trying to satisfy me, with my sense of humor. There are things that I have said that are funny to me, but they weren't to somebody in the press. So that hasn't worked to my benefit.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.