Bob Knight

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

Bob Knight

I don’t intend to retire.

Bob Knight

I don’t think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.

Bob Knight

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Bob Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don’t need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bob Knight

I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.

Bob Knight

I’m not sure I’ve ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.

Bob Knight

I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

Bob Knight

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

Bob Knight

I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

Bob Knight