“The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.”

I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.

You better have great practices.

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.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

The ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.

We won’t care about the things of the world as much. As a believer, you’re just going to be countercultural.