We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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 can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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