I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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You better have great practices.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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The world is run by C students
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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 team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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