Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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You better have great practices.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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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