Al McGuire Quotes, Basketball Quotes, Player Quotes

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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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.

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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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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

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Can't win without talent, you know.

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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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

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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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The world is run by C students

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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

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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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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

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Live in the moment that you are in.

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God didn't miss any of us.

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