A Quote by Bobby Knight

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Bobby Knight

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Bobby Knight
American - Coach
Born: October 25, 1940

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

Kelvin Sampson

Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

Carolyn Jones

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Bob Cousy

Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels in Indiana, the woman who`s coming in to run the Medicaid program at the federal level, her name is Seema Verma, a brilliant young woman, she made Indiana - healthy Indiana work so that actually low-income people in Indiana, actually have real healthcare coverage that they get access to a doctor. Those kinds of reforms on the state level we want see happen in all 50 states.

Paul Ryan

If you look in a dictionary, the word 'Indianan' may appear. But the first task, the litmus test as to whether or not someone really is from Indiana or has spent any kind of considerable time in Indiana, is whether or not they use the word 'Indianan,' because no one in Indiana ever uses that term. We refer to ourselves as Hoosiers.

Todd Young

Indiana basketball is bigger than one person.

Kelvin Sampson

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

Mike Pence

In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.

Evan Bayh

First and foremost, Indiana will always be a basketball state.

Reggie Miller

I'm from the Midwest, so I know what Indiana basketball is all about and I'm very blessed to be a part of it.

Caris LeVert

I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.'