I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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