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.
AL MCGUIREIf 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The world is run by C students
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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