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.

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.

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.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Energy spent to worry is a total lose. It is a down payment you’ve made without any return”.

Self-denial is painful for a moment but very agreeable in the end.

It’s not getting to the wall that counts; it’s what you do after you hit it.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.