When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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.

Forget the past. Look ahead, full of opportunities.

Life will throw all kinds of obstacles our way. It's our job to scramble over them and hunt for the little miracles tucked away, then leave some reminders for the people that follow behind us.

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

I go to the gym in the morning without any makeup on. Sorry, guys, if you think I'm ugly, but I don't know anybody who goes to the gym with makeup on.