Can’t win without talent, you know.
AL MCGUIREWinning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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