All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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The world is run by C students
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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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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Make your life exciting.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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