Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Knight

The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

Bobby Knight

I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

Bobby Knight

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.

Bobby Knight

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.

Bobby Knight

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

Bobby Knight

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

Bobby Knight

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

Bobby Knight

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

Bobby Knight

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Bobby Knight

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

Bobby Knight

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

Bobby Knight

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.

Bobby Knight

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

Bobby Knight

Everybody hears, but few listen.

Bobby Knight

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

Bobby Knight

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

Bobby Knight

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

Bobby Knight

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

Bobby Knight

When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Knight

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

Bob Costas

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

Bob Cousy

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

Bob Cousy

French was my first language.

Bob Cousy

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

Bob Cousy

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

Bob Cousy

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

Bob Cousy

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Bob Cousy

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

Bob Cousy

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

Bob Cousy

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

Bob Cousy

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Bob Cousy

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.