All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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