I don’t understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don’t understand why their players association condones that. Bobby Knight Read Quote
I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent. Bobby Knight Read Quote
I’m tired of this party stuff, where we’re going to do what’s right for this party, or we’re going to do what’s right for that party. Let’s just get together and do what’s right for the country. I think that’s what all of us want. Bobby Knight Read Quote
Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don’t care if guys whine and complain about this or that. You know, no country affords its inhabitants the opportunities that the U.S.A. gives to its people. Bobby Knight Read Quote
From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think it’s ludicrous the way they take kids away that are certainly not prepared to play. Bobby Knight Read Quote
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. Bobby Knight Read Quote
I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can. Bobby Knight Read Quote
All 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 Read Quote
