Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.