Al McGuire Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.”
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“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”
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“I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.”
-- Al McGuire -
“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 -
“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 -
“It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.”
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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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“A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.”
-- Al McGuire -
“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”
-- Al McGuire -
“That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.”
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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.”
-- Al McGuire -
“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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“I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.”
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“If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.”
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“If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.”
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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.”
-- Al McGuire -
“Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.”
-- Al McGuire -
“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 -
“I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.”
-- Al McGuire -
“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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“Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.”
-- Al McGuire -
“Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.”
-- Al McGuire -
“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 -
“When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.”
-- Al McGuire
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