I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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