Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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’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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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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 best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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