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

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.

When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.

I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.

A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

The only time I really go on the Internet is for recipes.

If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life.” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.

You can’t really go wrong as long as you’re true to yourself.

I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.