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 know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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