I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The world is run by C students
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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