If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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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 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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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You better have great practices.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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