Danh ngôn của Bobby Knight (Sứ mệnh: 7)

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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.
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
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 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?
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.'
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.'