You better have great practices.
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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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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 only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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