You better have great practices.
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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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