When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
Can't win without talent, you know.
If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
You better have great practices.
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.