It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
AL MCGUIREI don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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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 had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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