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AL MCGUIRELife is what you allow yourself not to see.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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