Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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 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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