When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREThe only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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 team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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You better have great practices.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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