Schaap: How important is it to you, you're only 117 victories away from Dean Smith's record to break the record, to be the winningest basketball coach in basketball?
Knight: Totally unimportant.
Schaap: Really, not at all?
Knight: No. I could care less about that. I've never cared about those things. Some guys brought some stuff from my locker today, and it was kind of interesting. My son Pat, who I think is the real victim in this whole thing. I mean, Pat has just worked very, very hard and very well helping us recruit these kids, putting them in the right frame of mind, getting them together, and now Pat in the beginning of a career wants to coach and he's been dismissed from his job along with me.
Schaap: He --
Knight: Let me finish, Jeremy.
Schaap: But Coach --
Knight: He's the victim in this.
Schaap: Yeah, but
Knight: Pat is the victim in this.
Schaap: He is the victim, but if you would have abided by the rules, would he have been the victim? Would he still have his job?
Knight: I don't think I had any chance to abide by the rules.
Schaap: Why not?
Knight: Let's get back to Pat, OK. Now, with Pat and our situation where it was, now we have to find another place. But again, before you interrupted me, what I -- and you have a real faculty for doing that.
Schaap: Thank you.
Knight: No, I don't think it's anything to really be real proud of myself.
Schaap: I'm sorry.
Knight: I talked about Pat --
Schaap: Bob, we came here to do an interview. I'm asking you questions.
Knight: Well, then let me finish the answer. Is that OK, Jeremy, is that fair enough? Have I interrupted your questions yet?
Schaap: Yes.
Knight: No, I haven't. You've interrupted my answers with your questions and then I've tried to get back. So let me finish.
Schaap: Please continue.
Knight:
[a 5 second pause] You've got a long way to go to be as good as your dad. You better keep that in mind.
Schaap: [awkwardly] I appreciate that. What's next? What do you do this year?
Knight: Oh, I don't know. I may go fishing tomorrow. I may work on my offense tomorrow. I may go look at some tapes tomorrow. There's never a day goes by that I don't work on basketball. And I'll continue to do that.