Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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