The world is run by C students
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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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