The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
AL MCGUIREEvery obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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