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.
AL MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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