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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More Al McGuire Quotes
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The world is run by C students
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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Make your life exciting.
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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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