The world is run by C students
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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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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