You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There’s not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We’re two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven’t been as well taught.
For me to get an award from the press, I know there’s been no favoritism.
If you’re not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
It is better to anticipate than to react.
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’ve always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player’s a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
Competitive drills enhance quickness.
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially when I know I’m right.
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.
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper.
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices.
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.