Bobby Knight Quotes

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

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!

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

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

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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