They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
AL MCGUIREYou gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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