Bobby Knight

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

“I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?”

“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.”

“Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or that. You know, no country affords its inhabitants the opportunities that the U.S.A. gives to its people.”

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

“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.”

“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!”