Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
AL MCGUIREI’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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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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’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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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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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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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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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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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