“You measure a player from the head up.”

On how to make the game more exciting.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

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.

That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.