If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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The world is run by C students
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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