We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Make your life exciting.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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