The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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You better have great practices.
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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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