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

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

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

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.

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

I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things.

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Now take my hand and hold it tight.I will not fail you here tonight, For failing you, I fail myselfAnd place my soul upon a shelfIn Hell's library without light.I will not fail you here tonight.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

I can be someone's and still be my own.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.