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.

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.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Death is harder on those who are left behind.

In truth the issue is that we are so powerful what we believe becomes our reality.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.

It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

God loved me before I actually was.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.