“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.”
"It is better to anticipate than to react."
- Bobby Knight
Awareness
"The key is not the 'will to win'… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important"
- Bobby Knight
Inspiration
"The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game"
- Bobby Knight
Inspiration
"Mental is to the physical as four is to one"
- Bobby Knight
Inspiration
"Coaches shouldn't have to push you to work hard, you should push yourself to work hard because you want to be a great player"
- Bobby Knight
Motivation
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education