I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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