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.
AL MCGUIREThat’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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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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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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The world is run by C students
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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” 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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