The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIREThe next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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You better have great practices.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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The world is run by C students
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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