I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.