Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
AL MCGUIRE” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Make your life exciting.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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 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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