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." Let….

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more..

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it..

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

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

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..

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..

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war..

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class..

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious..

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

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….

I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort….

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 t….

You measure a player from the head up..

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 th….

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

Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people..

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave..

Life is what you allow yourself not to see..

Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him..