Winning is only important in war and surgery.
AL MCGUIREOur guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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The world is run by C students
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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You better have great practices.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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