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.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Was there a drain?''No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'.

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.

Work on nothing less than epic scale

People know I was the last true champion.

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.