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 MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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The world is run by C students
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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’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 don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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