Al McGuire Quotes, Sports Quotes, Moving Quotes

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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Live in the moment that you are in.

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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.

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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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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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

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

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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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

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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

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

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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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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

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You measure a player from the head up.

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Can't win without talent, you know.

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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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