Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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