Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
AL MCGUIREI 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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You better have great practices.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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