Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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The world is run by C students
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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