Can’t win without talent, you know.
AL MCGUIREThe only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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