You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.