You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
AL MCGUIREI 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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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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Make your life exciting.
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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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” 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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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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