Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREThen we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The world is run by C students
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Make your life exciting.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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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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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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” 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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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