Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
AL MCGUIREWhen I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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 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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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