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Toby Keith was a true Oklahoma original.

From a kid who grew up in Moore selling soft drinks at OU games to the country music industry's biggest star selling more than 40 million albums, Keith always did it his way. 

Keith died Monday night after a battle with cancer. He was 62.

Keith was an unabashed Sooner fan, and that never wavered. A fixture on the football sideline for most of the last 25 years, a permanent guest under the basket at both men's and women's basketball games, when Keith wasn't touring, he was cheering for the Sooners.

And he left quite the legacy among those in Sooner Nation. Here's a sampling of those who opened up on social media Monday:

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