| Bobby Knight is presently the head basketball | | | | (analytical). Of these four styles, the |
| coach at Texas Tech. Prior to being hired by | | | | Choleric or Worker style is the most |
| them Bobby Knight spent twenty-nine years | | | | impatient, ill natured and short tempered. |
| coaching basketball at Indiana University. In | | | | The Worker temperament style is the D in the |
| those twenty-nine years he coached many | | | | D.I.S.C. profiling system. Bobby Knight has |
| successful basketball teams and in fact, | | | | the Worker as his primary temperament style |
| brought three NCAA basketball championships | | | | and therefore like most Workers, has a |
| back to Indiana. He was recognized as a | | | | challenge with anger management. This style |
| strict disciplinarian and used a "hands on" | | | | is often referred to as a "Workaholic or Type |
| coaching style. Coach Knight was feared and | | | | A" personality. When they get angry their |
| respected not only by the opposing team, but | | | | tendency is to explode like a volcano and |
| by his own players as well. His winning | | | | then get over it quickly and go about their |
| tradition at Indiana University made him an | | | | business as if nothing had happened. Workers |
| icon for college basketball. Here is a man | | | | are aggressive, no-nonsense people who seek |
| who was at the top of his game and appeared | | | | power and control. They are goal-oriented |
| to have it all. So what happened? Why did | | | | individuals with a practical, bottom line |
| Indiana fire him as their head basketball | | | | approach to life. The Worker is extroverted |
| coach? Essentially Bobby Knight lost his job | | | | by nature. People who have the Worker as |
| when he lost his temper. It has been said | | | | their primary temperament style are |
| that people are a lot like steel, once they | | | | physically large, powerful people with broad |
| loose their temper they are rendered useless. | | | | shoulders. Other well-known Workers are; Mike |
| Unfortunately when most people think of Bobby | | | | Tyson, John Wayne, Vince Lombardi, George C. |
| Knight, they picture an irate coach throwing | | | | Scott, Bea Arthur, Pete Rose, Janet Reno, |
| a chair across the basketball court | | | | O.J. Simpson, Joseph Stalin, George S. Patton |
| dramatically underscoring his disagreement | | | | and Jim Brown. |
| with an official's call. His explosive and | | | | |
| volatile temper ultimately caused him to be | | | | Bobby Knight developed a winning tradition |
| placed on probation at Indiana University | | | | while at Indiana University by demanding that |
| after he chocked one of his players during | | | | his players learn how to play under pressure |
| practice. | | | | and adversity. Ironically, self-control was |
| | | | the one thing coach Knight was unable to give |
| Why are some people more aggressive and | | | | back to them! Bobby Knight is a good example |
| volatile than others? Twenty-four hundred | | | | of a bad example. He reminds us all that the |
| years ago, Hippocrates, the father of | | | | strength of our temperament style taken to |
| medicine, theorized that we are born into one | | | | the extreme becomes our greatest personal |
| of four primary temperament styles and that | | | | weakness. He has been given a second chance |
| each style has it's own unique physiology, | | | | to coach at Texas Tech. Let's hope that he |
| character traits and outlook on life; | | | | learned his lesson and will control his |
| Choleric (aggressive), Sanguine (emotional), | | | | legendary, explosive temper! |
| Phlegmatic (passive) and Melancholy | | | | |