My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The 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.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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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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