I once watched Hoosiers with Joe Tait ... including Knightstown (the movie home of the Hickory Huskers). Tait and I talked about how Hackman played the part of a middle-aged man with a temper ...

FILE - Actor Gene Hackman gives fictional Hickory High basketball players instructions during filming of the final game of the movie "Hoosiers" at Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus ...

Declared as one of the greatest sports movies in film history ... and how they went from small-town Hickory, Indiana to the state basketball championships. Hoosiers was loosely inspired by ...

That famous line was delivered at the end of a speech by Gene Hackman's character Norman Dale in "Hoosiers." His Hickory Huskers ... and the movie becoming one of the greatest sports films of ...