I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
AL MCGUIREIt’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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The world is run by C students
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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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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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