I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other.

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.

Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they'll laugh.

Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint Eastwood.' Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.