Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of the General of IU basketball, the legendary Coach Bob Knight. Growing up in southern Indiana, there were three things that shaped my childhood: family, faith, and IU basketball. Any game day, TVs across our towns would play the game, and on the screen was Coach Bob Knight. During those games, my mom really only had two emotions: frustration, yelling, Come on, boys; or elation, celebrating game play. I was a student during Coach Knight's last year at IU, and I always said that you haven't really seen an IU game unless you were able to witness one that he had coached or had been kicked out of. Coach Knight's legacy was complex to say the least, but that didn't stop Hoosiers from loving him and through him the game of basketball. Boy, did he create champions on and off the court. He brought home three national championship banners to the walls of Assembly Hall and 902 wins, more than any other coach in IU history. Under Coach Knight, IU basketball wasn't just a sport about wins and championships, it was a way of life. In his honor, today we remember what it means to be an IU Hoosier. ____________________”