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.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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You better have great practices.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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