Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
AL MCGUIREThe 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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 let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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You better have great practices.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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 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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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The world is run by C students
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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