Top 30 Bobby Knight Quotes

Trump is not national: he’s international. He’s known all over the world. He has established businesses all over, and he has given jobs to thousands and thousands of people all over the world with these businesses that he has put together.

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.

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, ‘If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.’

I don’t think I have ever been out of control.

I’ll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who’s never even attempted to play it.

When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.

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.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

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

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

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

We need a Donald Trump more than we’ve ever needed anybody since George Washington.

I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.

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

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

There are two real keys to winning. You’ve got to have good players: no coach won with bad players. You win with good players. That is number one. Number two is, when we are playing, let’s say we are playing Michigan, and they had a really good press: we’ve got to solve that press.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’

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.

I just like the United States, and I like being an American.

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.

I’ve always been a great fan of the state of Pennsylvania. One of the people – one of the people that I admired the most in college athletics was Joe Paterno.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.

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.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

I don’t intend to retire.

From my mother to people that I’ve known in my lifetime, they’ve tried to settle me down a little bit. Now I’m trying to do the same thing to my man Trump.

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, ‘God screwed the pitcher.’ And I don’t know how else you look at it.

I’m a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.