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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.
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