A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIREI just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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