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.
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The world is run by C students
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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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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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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