The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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