Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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