I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
AL MCGUIREThe only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Make your life exciting.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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