We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREYou gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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 measure a player from the head up.
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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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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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