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.
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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