I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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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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