If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Can't win without talent, you know.

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.