I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
AL MCGUIREA team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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You better have great practices.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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The world is run by C students
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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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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.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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