“You measure a player from the head up.”

Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Make your life exciting.

I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

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

When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.

That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Live in the moment that you are in.

If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.

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.

No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.

That’s the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can’t pursue your dream till you’re 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India.

You always catch the wrong players.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, ‘It wasn’t in the rules.’

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you’re nobody.