It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
AL MCGUIREA 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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