Al McGuire Quotes

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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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  Basketball, Education, College

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• The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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• Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

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  Basketball, Kids, Nba

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• I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. 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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  Fighting, Night, Missing

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• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

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  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

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  Mountain, Way

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• My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

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  Basketball, Kids, House

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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, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

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  Sports, Moving, Successful

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• Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

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  Graduation, Basketball, Country

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• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

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  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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• I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. 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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  Leadership, Sports, Zero

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• Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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  Basketball, Night, Saturday

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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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  Basketball, Team, Personality

  24 Copy quote

• Live in the moment that you are in.

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  Basketball, Live In The Moment, Moments

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• Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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  Basketball, Life Is

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• It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

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  Moving, Kids, Golf

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• You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

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  Basketball, School, Catholic

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• Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

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  Home, Wife, Fans

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• We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

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  Basketball, Stars, Graves

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• Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

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  Basketball, Guy, Paint

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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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  Basketball, Player, Students

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• I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

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  Basketball, Life Is, Moments

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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. 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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  Team, Men, Average

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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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  Basketball, Moon, Play

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• They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

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  Money, Nuts, Differences

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