They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
AL MCGUIREWe rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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 worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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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The world is run by C students
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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 gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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Make your life exciting.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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