Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIREIt bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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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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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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