I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREButch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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