Al McGuire on silly
Al McGuire74 quotes“I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.”
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
Al McGuireAl McGuire Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
Al McGuireAl McGuire Make your life exciting.
Al McGuireAl McGuire 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.
Al McGuireAl McGuire I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
Al McGuireAl McGuire When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
Al McGuireAl McGuire That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
Al McGuireAl McGuire Live in the moment that you are in.
Al McGuireAl McGuire If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
Al McGuireAl McGuire Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
Al McGuireAl McGuire The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Al McGuireAl McGuire 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.
Al McGuireAl McGuire All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
Al McGuireAl McGuire There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
Al McGuireAl McGuire When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
Al McGuireAl McGuire 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 think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.
Aaron RodgersAaron Rodgers There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
CatullusCatullus Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.
Aaron BelzAaron Belz You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein The wise do not investigate such silliness.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte