Live in the moment that you are in.
AL MCGUIREThe 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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 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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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 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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