The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
AL MCGUIREDo what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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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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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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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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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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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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