Bobby Knight Quotes About Coaches

Quotes about: Coaches

• I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

  Bobby Knight

  Teacher, Coaches

• A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

  Bobby Knight

  Coaching, Should, Coaches

• To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Team, Coaching

• As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Offense And Defense, Two

• The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

  Bobby Knight

  Volleyball, Practice, Reason

• I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Jobs, Winning

• Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Son, Knights

  "Bob Knight could be fired after latest allegations". www.cnn.com. September 9, 2000.

• 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Son

• As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Games

• We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

  Bobby Knight

  Integrity, School, Kentucky

  "Knight chides Calipari in Indiana speech". www.espn.com. December 18, 2009.

• 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Real

• We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Kids, Winning

• From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, "I'm Bob Knight."

  Bobby Knight

  Teaching, College, Knights

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

• 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.

  Bobby Knight

  Jobs, Media, Two

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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