Knight. My story. By Bobby Knight. Quotes XII

-Each one of us told them the same thing: he was doing a great job, under uniquely difficult conditions, in a state that didn't produce many Big Ten football players. I was particularly impressed when he took Colorado to the Orange Bowl and then was fired two years later after telling some big donors where to stick their money when they started suggesting things he could do to compete better with Oklahoma and Nebraska. On Bill Mallory firing.
-Coaching, kind of like the military, has a promotion system and has had it for ever. In coaching, it usually involves moving. You win somewhere, you get an invitation to go to a better job. And if you win some more, you move up again.
-Coaches are hired or fired, promoted or dismissed, based on how many games and championships they have won and, to a great extent, how many tickets were sold.
-They showed a lot more interest in developing that elitist golf course than in improving the salaries of professors, or retaining any of the outstanding professors that they had inherited from past administrations but had lost to other schools in the last five years.
-Never complain, never explain.
-They were an amazingly free-spending group on their own behalf for an outfit that could find only two percent raises for its best professors.
-When you were contacted, we got an immediate response, and a check. I'll never forget that. They couldn't find $1000 for a tribute to a man who had done so much for IU in so many ways as Isiah Thomas had.
-I continued to coach at Indiana for many reasons. A major one was how much I enjoyed  the whole process of coaching. And that process starts with the kids involved: what I can do with them in basketball, what I can do to help shape their lives.