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

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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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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 discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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You better have great practices.

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

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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

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

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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

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

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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

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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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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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