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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More Al McGuire Quotes
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The world is run by C students
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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 better have great practices.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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 believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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