I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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