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

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.

Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.

You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.

My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.

Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.

Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Can’t win without talent, you know.

A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right, records! Man, they don’t even make records no more!

Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’

There’s no way to learn how to write a hit song. There’s no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’

The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

No man should put their life in someone else’s hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.