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 MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You better have great practices.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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The world is run by C students
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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 people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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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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