I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
AL MCGUIREThe only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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 measure a player from the head up.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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