My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIREI believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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 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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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