I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
AL MCGUIREMy rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The world is run by C students
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Make your life exciting.
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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’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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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