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.
AL MCGUIREIf you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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.
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