Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
AL MCGUIREMost people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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