When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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You better have great practices.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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