I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
AL MCGUIRE” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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’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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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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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Make your life exciting.
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