Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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