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I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

Al McGuire

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Al McGuire
Age: 72 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 7
Died: 2001
Died: January 26
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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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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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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Can't win without talent, you know.
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God didn't miss any of us.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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You better have great practices.
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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.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy 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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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