I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.