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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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