Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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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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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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 world is run by C students
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Make your life exciting.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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