You measure a player from the head up.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Make your life exciting.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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 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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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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