Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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.
Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
Live in the moment that you are in.
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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.
Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
On how to make the game more exciting - 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.
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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.
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.
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
