My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIREMy rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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 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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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