Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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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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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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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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