Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
AL MCGUIREMy rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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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 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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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