All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIREWhen a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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