So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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