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.
AL MCGUIREI went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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 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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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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