The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
AL MCGUIREA team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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