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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
Bobby Knight
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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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