Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIRELife is what you allow yourself not to see.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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You better have great practices.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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The world is run by C students
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Make your life exciting.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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