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.
AL MCGUIRECan’t win without talent, you know.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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The world is run by C students
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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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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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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