Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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” 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 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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Make your life exciting.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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You better have great practices.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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