When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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