A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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You better have great practices.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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