If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

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 closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.

A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.