Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
AL MCGUIREDo what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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The world is run by C students
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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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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