Make your life exciting.
AL MCGUIREWhen I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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 went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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