I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

Success is the best builder of character.

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

Girls Understand Girls, But they don't like each other.

Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.