When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
AL MCGUIREI don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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