I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
AL MCGUIREDon’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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