A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIREKeep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Make your life exciting.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You better have great practices.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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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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