There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
AL MCGUIREThe people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The world is run by C students
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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