I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

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.

I am the sun... And the air...

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.

Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.