Al McGuire Quotes

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

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

  61 Copy quote

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

  Al McGuire

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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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.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Education, College

  113 Copy quote

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

  Al McGuire

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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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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• 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.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Kids, House

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

  Al McGuire

  Graduation, Basketball, Country

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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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• 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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• Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Night, Saturday

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• Live in the moment that you are in.

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  Basketball, Live In The Moment, Moments

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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.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Sports, Zero

  33 Copy quote

• The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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  Basketball, Freshman, Sophomore

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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

  25 Copy quote

• 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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• Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

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  Basketball, Hurt, Long

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

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Life Is, Moments

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• That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

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  Race, Balloons, Curtains

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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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• I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

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  Basketball, Believe, Past

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• If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

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  Basketball, Dirty, Ankles

  24 Copy quote

• 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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• 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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