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.
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
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.
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.
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
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.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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.
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
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.
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.
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me
My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.
Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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.
