” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Make your life exciting.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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