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.
AL MCGUIREWhen a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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The world is run by C students
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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