Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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.
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 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.
Keep it simple. When you get too complex, you forget the obvious.
A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
The world is run by C students.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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.