There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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You better have great practices.
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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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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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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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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’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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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