I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
AL MCGUIREIt’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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.
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