God didn’t miss any of us.
AL MCGUIREWinning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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 only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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