So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIREI had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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