Bobby Knight Quotes

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Merit should count more than academic background.

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

Good people climb quickly - just like in a company.

Talent will come out.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

If you work hard and perform well, it doesn't matter whether you're 20 or 40. People are going to follow, and you can go in there and run the show.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

I'm doing a good job in Washington.

The gaffer Gareth Southgate knows I can play with my feet, but he knows the capability I have in goal as well. He has put the faith in me, and I had to repay him in the World Cup, and I think I did.