{"author":"Bobby Knight","author_id":"Bobby+Knight","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["mother","years","spent "],"id":5093,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["regret","dumb","wait "],"id":28311,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["game","basketball","play "],"id":47501,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["language","coaching","think "],"id":103204,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["change","changes","people "],"id":154266,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["hope","results","work"],"id":170017,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["thinking","me","negative "],"id":192709,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["history","best","team "],"id":285930,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["looking","teach","place "],"id":286101,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"},{"text":"If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.","author":"Bobby Knight","tags":["team","problems","want "],"id":290072,"author_id":"Bobby+Knight"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}