If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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You better have great practices.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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 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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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