When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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 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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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