Winning is only important in war and surgery.
AL MCGUIREDon’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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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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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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 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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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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