Quotes from Bobby Knight

Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.

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

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

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

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!

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

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

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.

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

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

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.

If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best basketball player, let's get Bill Russell. If we want the guy who can do the best job for the United States - let's get Donald Trump.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

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

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.

A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something, the kids understood exactly what I meant and what I wanted.