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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
Al McGuire
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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. 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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. 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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
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You better have great practices.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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