I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
AL MCGUIREI don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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