The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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 an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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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 just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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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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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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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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