There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
AL MCGUIREYou gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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The world is run by C students
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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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