I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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