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.
AL MCGUIREWe rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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