I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
AL MCGUIREHelp one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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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 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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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