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.

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

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

Live in the moment that you are in.

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