I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
AL MCGUIRELive in the moment that you are in.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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 don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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