Attributed

• That's one more rebound than a dead guy.
  • After his center grabbbed only one rebound in the first half of a game.

• You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.
  • to broadcaster Howard Cosell

• If you had come with me, you could be the principal of a high school by now.
  • to Johnny Bench, whom he tried to recruit while at Oklahoma City University.

• Damn referees. I'll miss them less than anybody.
  • after losing his final game by one point, in a bid for victory No. 600

• You mean in the state?
  • When asked if he felt his 1976 University of Texas basketball team should be ranked in the top twenty that season

• Finish last in your league and they call you "Idiot". Finish last in medical school and they call you "Doctor".

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

• One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

• I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick.

• Doctors bury their mistakes, mine are still on scholarship.

• They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.
  • After being asked about a group of alumni that wanted him to leave.