The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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The world is run by C students
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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 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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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