Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIREAll love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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