Can’t win without talent, you know.
AL MCGUIREI 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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.
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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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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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You better have great practices.
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