If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
AL MCGUIREThe 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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You better have great practices.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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