It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
AL MCGUIREI tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go 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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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 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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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