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.

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.