A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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