Al McGuire on silly
Al McGuire74 quotes“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.
Al McGuireAl McGuire Live in the moment that you are in.
Al McGuireAl McGuire If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
Al McGuireAl McGuire Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
Al McGuireAl McGuire The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Al McGuireAl McGuire 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 McGuireAl McGuire All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
Al McGuireAl McGuire There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
Al McGuireAl McGuire When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
Al McGuireAl McGuire So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
Al McGuireAl McGuire I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
Al McGuireAl McGuire I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
Al McGuireAl McGuire They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
Al McGuireAl McGuire 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.
Al McGuireAl McGuire Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
Al McGuireAl McGuire It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
Al McGuireAl McGuire
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Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
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I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.
Aaron RodgersAaron Rodgers There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
CatullusCatullus Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.
Aaron BelzAaron Belz You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein The wise do not investigate such silliness.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte