Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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 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 know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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