Make your life exciting.
AL MCGUIREMost people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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