I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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You better have great practices.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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