My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
AL MCGUIRERemember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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