The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
AL MCGUIREOn how to make the game more exciting.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Make your life exciting.
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