Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
AL MCGUIREI tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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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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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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