Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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