What's Your Favorite Bob Knight Quote?

[OliviaPope40 6,631]

Transferred to Oklahoma for coach - are you ready for this - Kelvin Sampson!!   From what I found he had a bunch of injuries at OK and was subsequently dismissed by Sampson for the ever popular "violation of team rules" and he ended his final year of eligibility at Oklahoma City University.

Interesting.

[Parakeet Jones 3,784]

Transferred to Oklahoma for coach - are you ready for this - Kelvin Sampson!! From what I found he had a bunch of injuries at OK and was subsequently dismissed by Sampson for the ever popular "violation of team rules" and he ended his final year of eligibility at Oklahoma City University.

What do you have to do to get kicked off of the team by Kelvin Sampson?

[JSHoosier 20,462]

What do you have to do to get kicked off of the team by Kelvin Sampson?

Actually go to class? Avoid drugs?

[TrueHoosier62 1,593]

"I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance."
-Commenting on that stormy 1987 game with LSU

I've often thought this was one of the greatest quotes of his, and I know it really irked the hell out of Dale Brown! lol

[TrueHoosier62 1,593]

As a wonderful dig at people like Calipari and others who cheat:

 

"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."

[GloryDays 5,928]

I've often thought this was one of the greatest quotes of his, and I know it really irked the hell out of Dale Brown! lol

 All year long Dale Brown was boasting about  LSU's Freak defense.

The last shot of that game was an air ball shot by, I believe Darrell Thomas that Ricky Calloway tipped in for the win.

In the post game interview he referred to that play as Indiana's Freak offense.

 That had to be up there with the best of Bobby's sarcastic remarks.

[HoosierCoop 3,950]

"In my entire adult life, I've never used the expression 'game face.' I have no idea what that means or what you're supposed to do."
- Responding to a question at a 1992 NCAA Tourament press conference

 

That was the funniest thing I think I have ever seen.

[HoosierCoop 3,950]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqKTKUvbVsA&feature=player_detailpage

[IUsafety 2,775]

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OG retweeted this and said, "makes sense!"

[hoosha61 386]

"Should have been two" His quote after winning the 76 title.

[Josh 12,723]

Obviously this one is the best, the one you mentioned in the original post:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS20_JesSq4

[Josh 12,723]

On that LSU game mentioned in this thread...remember how he had a run-in with an LSU fan at the team hotel?  The LSU fan wound up in the trash can:

 

"We didn't trade shoves.  I did all the shoving"

[Josh 12,723]

On the chair throwing incident:

 

"I heard this little voice yelling, 'Bob, Bob', and the only one I saw was this sweet little old lady.  Finally, she said "If you're not going to sit down, would you throw your chair over here?"

[incrediboy 926]

Just rereading Knight's Power of Negative Thinking, and two quotes stand out:

 

1) Every coach should know the phrase, "I don't know, but I'll find out." (This is in context of coaches who think they know it all)

 

2) In response to the attitude of, "What difference does it make? The sun will still come up tomorrow," Knight's retort is, "Yeah, and it'll shine brilliant rays on the same mess that was there yesterday unless someone cleans it up."

[JSHoosier 20,462]

Just rereading Knight's Power of Negative Thinking, and two quotes stand out:

1) Every coach should know the phrase, "I don't know, but I'll find out." (This is in context of coaches who think they know it all)

2) In response to the attitude of, "What difference does it make? The sun will still come up tomorrow," Knight's retort is, "Yeah, and it'll shine brilliant rays on the same mess that was there yesterday unless someone cleans it up."

I'm thinking of getting that book. I've read My Story and really enjoyed it.

[Whoozhers 3,723]

He told Alford that he "couldn't lead a whore into bed"

Obviously knowing that's where she wanted to go.... Is a pretty hard slap on the boy.