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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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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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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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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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 don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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