A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIREI come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The world is run by C students
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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 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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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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 don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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