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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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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