Bob Knight

American basketball coach (1940–2023)

Robert Montgomery (Bob or Bobby) Knight (October 25, 1940 – November 1, 2023), also known as "The General", was an American former college basketball head coach. He was most recently the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech before announcing his retirement on February 4, 2008. He was previously the head coach at Indiana University and at the United States Military Academy. Knight has won more NCAA Division I men's basketball games than any other head coach except Mike Kryzewski and Jim Boeheim. On January 1, 2007, he achieved his 880th victory, which broke the record previously held by Dean Smith. His 900th victory came just over a year later, on January 16, 2008.

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Birth Name: Robert Montgomery Knight

Alternative Names: Bobby Knight • The General

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The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

When my time on earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.

I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.

Let me answer that. That is an absolute fucking crock of bullshit. All you people in the media, all you fuckers dwell on some negative piece of bullshit like that and I don't know how Steve feels about it, and you don't have to bleep one single fucking word of this.

Bob Knight

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