My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIREWhen 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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You better have great practices.
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Make your life exciting.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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