I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
AL MCGUIREThey call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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 tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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