The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIRESo they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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The world is run by C students
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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