Success is the best builder of character.

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.

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.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Love looks like something.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.