Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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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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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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