Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIREKeep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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