The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
AL MCGUIREI don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Make your life exciting.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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 tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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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You better have great practices.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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