The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

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

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.