Al McGuire Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Night Quotes

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. 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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My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

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Live in the moment that you are in.

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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

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God didn't miss any of us.

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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 tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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