The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
AL MCGUIREWinning is only important in war and surgery.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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The world is run by C students
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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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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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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 called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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