I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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