Can’t win without talent, you know.
AL MCGUIREWhen I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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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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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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