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“Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Kids #Helping
“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”
-- Al McGuire

#Funny #Hilarious #Humorous
“I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Philosophy #Class
“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
“God didn't miss any of us.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Missing
“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.'”
-- Al McGuire

#Fighting #Night #Missing
“The world is run by C students”
-- Al McGuire

#Running #World #Students
“It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Profession
“When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Fighting #Guy
“A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Team #Personality
“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”
-- Al McGuire

#Leadership #Basketball #Sports
“That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.”
-- Al McGuire

#Race #Balloons #Curtains
“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.”
-- Al McGuire

#Money #Nuts #Differences
“Life is what you allow yourself not to see.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Life Is
“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.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Moon #Play
“I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #New York #Fall
“If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Dirty #Ankles
“If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Winning #Important
“Can't win without talent, you know.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Winning #Talent
“Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Guy #Paint
“Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.”
-- Al McGuire

#Sports #Simple #Forget
“Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Brother #Nice
“I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Oxford #Common Sense
“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.”
-- Al McGuire

#Moving #Kids #Golf
“Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.”
-- Al McGuire

#Graduation #Basketball #Country
“Live in the moment that you are in.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Live In The Moment #Moments
“Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Hurt #Long
“You measure a player from the head up.”
-- Al McGuire

#Motivational #Sports #Player
“I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.”
-- Al McGuire

#Sports #Country #Silly
“When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.”
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Winning #Nuts

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