A biography for Bobby Knighthasn’t been written yet.
“I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.”
“The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”
“We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.”
“I don't intend to retire.”
“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.”
“If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.”
“I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.”
“I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.”
“I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.”
“Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.”
“During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.”
“People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.”
“I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish.”
“In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.”
“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 don't think I have ever been out of control.”
“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
“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.”
“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”
“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.'”