A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.
Bobby KnightThere 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 KnightIn my dealings with the press, I was like the guy who goes into the cathouse and the madam gets him prepared and looks at him and says, "Who are you going to satisfy with that?" And he looks back at her and says, "Me." That's kind of my sense of humor at times.
Bobby KnightThe red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
Bobby KnightAll the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
Bobby Knight