We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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 called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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The world is run by C students
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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