When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
AL MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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