I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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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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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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