I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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You better have great practices.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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