I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn’t make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

Damn referees, I’ll miss them less than anybody.

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.’

I don’t have any tricky plays. I’d rather have tricky players.

I don’t understand these new coaches who don’t drink. What do they do when they get beat?

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

I’d rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

I never substitute just to substitute. I play my regulars. The only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies.

Coaches are creatures of habit. I knew a coach who got a deal going where his players had to run a mile in six minutes. I asked why. He said, 'gut check'.