Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

I’m a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

I'm the most unracist person around.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

We discover our character through decisions under pressure.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.