A Season on the Brink ―a book about Bob Knight―is the bestselling sports book of all time. Here is the only book that can surpass it―a book about Bob Knight by Bob Knight. In college basketball, the name Bob Knight is synonymous with greatness and winning. Just take a glance at the Knight file. The numbers and achievements that prove what he has done, not only for Indiana University, but for the game itself, are there in black and white. In this riveting memoir, Coach Knight talks about his extraordinary basketball career, addressing both the public triumphs and the highly publicized controversies, often providing his side of the story for the first time. His story begins with the most public and painful event in his life: his front-page dismissal as Indiana University's basketball coach after 29 years in that position. But the story of Bob Knight is so much more than that. Above all, it is a story about one man's tremendous success. How did he become the head coach at Army at the age of 24? How did he build a dynasty at Indiana? What principles has he lived by―and coached by―that kept the best players coming to Indiana to play for him? Knight: My Story reveals a very personal and until now unseen part of Bob Knight's life. His legions of fans will all line up to learn more about him. Bob Knight has shown time and again that he is the most well-known coach in college basketball: • He has won over 700 games (618 with Indiana University) • He has been National Coach of the Year four times • He coached ten Big Ten MVPs • He is the only coach who can boast an NCAA Championship, NIT Title, the Pan American Gold, and the Olympic gold medal • He was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991 • He graduated 98% of his players • He retired with a remarkable .709 winning record “They say say that there are two sides to every story. In Knight , Bob Knight presents his, well told.” ― Bookpage Bobby Knight has proven over and over again that he is the finest basketball coach in America. No other coach can cite NCAA and NIT championships, and Olympic and Pan American gold medals among his achievements. He is one of only thirteen coaches in college basketball history to record 700 or more victories. His coaching achievements were honored in May of 1991, when he was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame. Bob Hammel was sports editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times for thirty years before he retired following the 1996 Olympics. He is the author of nine previous books, six of which were on Indiana basketball. Knight My Story By Bob Knight St. Martin's Griffin Copyright © 2003 Bob Knight All right reserved. ISBN: 9780312311179 Knight ONE: The Eight Greatest Words For the first time in thirty-six years, I don't have a basketball team. I remember very clearly the thought going through my mind that day: Only in America ... I'm a pretty appreciative guy, especially where my country is concerned. It's nothing I have to think about. I've always felt that way. In the summer of 1984 when I was coaching the U.S. Olympic team, every stop I made, every group I talked to, I mentioned the eight greatest words any American ever put together: America, America, God shed His grace on thee ... Through the winter of 2000-01 when I was speaking to different groups across the country, I made it a point virtually every time to ask World War II veterans to stand, then all people who had served in the military in service to our country. I did it because I enjoyed seeing those people stand and hear applause, and I enjoyed being one of the people applauding. I strongly feel we are all blessed by being where we are when we are, and there are some specific people and generations who deserve to feel proud and appreciated--like the New York City firemen and policemen of September 2001.But this late-summer day in 1991 when I was pleasantly into my "only in America" reverie, I was wading in a river, fishing. The river was the Umba, in northern Russia. What I was thinking was that only in America could a guy like me, through a game like basketball, be standing there, having such a great experience.Because fishing that same day in that same river, just around a bend, was my friend, Ted Williams. Ted was as close to a lifelong hero as I had, outside my family. As a boy I sat in the stands at Lakefront Stadium in Cleveland and marveled at his swing. I was all for the Indians, but when I saw that classic Ted Williams swing send a baseball screaming into the stands and watched that head-down Williams lope around the bases, I felt privileged.The more I learned about him, the more I revered him--not only as a great baseball player but also as a genuine hero of two American wars; as a master fisherman; as one of the rare national figures who absolutely God-damned refused to knuckle under to a hostile press.Here I was, a kid from a small Ohio town, a town not far from Cleveland where my parents had t