You always catch the wrong players.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

You mean in the state?

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

We did have three go to the YMCA.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.