I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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 be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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You better have great practices.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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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 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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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