My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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