Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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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You better have great practices.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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