Can’t win without talent, you know.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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