Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
AL MCGUIREI 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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