So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIRE” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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The world is run by C students
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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