I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
AL MCGUIREI come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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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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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’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Make your life exciting.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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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 don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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