Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

You are born with the power to change your life by simply changing your thoughts.

NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway.

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.