I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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” 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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