” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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The world is run by C students
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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