I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
AL MCGUIREWhen I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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The world is run by C students
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