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.

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.

If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.