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.
AL MCGUIREA 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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