I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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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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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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