If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIREThe best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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The world is run by C students
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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