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.
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 next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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The world is run by C students
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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