And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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’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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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.’
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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The world is run by C students
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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