Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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 every day as if it were Saturday night.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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