The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling.

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

The land of success will always be big enough for all, but you must still get yourself to it.

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.

And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.