If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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’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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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