“Control everything within 18 feet.”

The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men.

I’ve always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle

Point the ball on all long shots.

But I’d rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

There are no secrets in the game.

No easy baskets.

I know I have plenty of enemies.

If they don’t let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession.

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

Force your opponent into low percentage shots.

Success is the best builder of character.

A sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

Reduce the number of your opponent’s shots;

We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‘Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.’ I said that because we all cried for a week.

Coming down the 18th, your heart’s pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms – there’s no feeling like it.

Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.

I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she’s 18 years old.