Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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” 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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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