I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
AL MCGUIREThey call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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