When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

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.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Funny thing, how much weaker boys are than girls.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.