Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
AL MCGUIREThe only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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 gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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 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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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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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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You better have great practices.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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