I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIREYou can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The world is run by C students
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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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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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