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