The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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