I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The world is run by C students
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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 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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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