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

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.

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.

As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field.

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset.