If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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