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.
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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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