I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREI had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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 people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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