“Can’t win without talent, you know.”

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

God didn’t miss any of us.

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.

Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.

You measure a player from the head up.

I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.

I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.

The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Make your life exciting.

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.

I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.

When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.

That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.

I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I’m going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!