I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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