I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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 world is run by C students
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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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