The world is run by C students
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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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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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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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