A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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 believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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