The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Make your life 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 believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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