Bob Knight
The Unauthorized Biography
Chapter OneBOBBY
Orrville and Columbus, 1940-62
Bobby has got so much....He doesn't cheat. He doesn't drink. He doesn't even chase women. But for some reason, he thinks he has been a bad boy and no matter how successful he becomes, he thinks he must be punished.
-- IU assistant Roy Bates to SI's Frank Deford
I can remember my mom saying time and frigging time again, "Just remember, somebody has to lose." And my rejoinder has always been, "Why should it be me?"
-- Bob Knight
Playboy, March 2001
From the beginning, he was different.
Robert Montgomery Knight, the only child of the local freight agent on the railroad line and the second-grade teacher at Walnut St ... read full excerpt from Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography ebook