If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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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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The world is run by C students
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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