The world is run by C students
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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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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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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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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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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