Winning is only important in war and surgery.
AL MCGUIREMake your life exciting.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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 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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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