The world is run by C students
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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 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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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