Quotes from Bobby Knight

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

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

The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

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!

In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way from San Diego to Houston. We've got military bases all over the country. We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt to the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.

People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

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.

I think what Mr. Trump has is this - he has experiences. He has put more things together in businesses around the United States, around the world. And he's had some things that didn't go exactly right. He's been able to find a way to resurrect those things. He's been able to make some changes.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

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

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

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.

I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump.

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

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.