If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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.

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

I felt like I was in charge.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.