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.

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

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

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.

Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.