Great Bob Knight Quotes

Coach Bob Knight is One of My Favorite Sports Figures

Texas Tech Men's Basketball Coach Bob Knight, love him or hate him, is a man who doesn't mince words via his great quotes. Many great quotes made by Bob Knight are very memorable indeed, if not enlightening or controversial. With this in mind, here are some of my favorite Bob Knight great quotes that he's made on tv, radio, or attributed to him in various media. None of the following sayings have a litany of cuss words in them either!

"People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies."
--Quoted in Bloomington Herald-Times, March 1994

"I fortunately have never worried about irritating people."
--Quoted in the Indianapolis Monthly, December 1982

Since Bob Knight has taken over at Texas Tech, he's not been in the news as much with great quotes as he was while coaching basketball at Indiana, but en route to becoming the winningest men's NCAA Division I college basketball coach of all time, he said this on December 23, 2006, when he tied Dean's Smith's record of 879 victories:

"I'd like to have hit 62 home runs. Then I think I would've accomplished something."

And here's a few great quotes from the best-selling book about Coach Knight, A Season on the Brink, which came out some 20 college basketball seasons ago, the 1986-87 season, the same year that Bob Knight won his last National Championship.

"Steve, God is not going to provide any leadership on this basketball team. He couldn't care less if we win or not. He is not going to parachute in through the roof of this building and score when we need points.....let me ask you this. Do you really think that God is going to help a team that I'm coaching?"
--Coach Bob Knight quotes to basketball player Steve Alford before a basketball practice.

"Daryl, get in the game or get out! Do you know you haven't scored a basket inside since Jesus Christ was lecturing in Omaha?"
--Coach Bob Knight quotes to basketball player Daryl Thomas during practice.