Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
AL MCGUIREOn how to make the game more exciting.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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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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The world is run by C students
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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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