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.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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