That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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