If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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 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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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