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.
AL MCGUIREAnd if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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The world is run by C students
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