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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
Bobby Knight
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