“I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.”

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.

If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.

Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)

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

” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.

The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

The world is run by C students

I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

Honesty is most important, and it’s difficult when you’re young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies.