I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

You can't win without the ball.