Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIREI let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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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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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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You better have great practices.
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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 tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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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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