I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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