You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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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.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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 let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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