I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.
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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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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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