I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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