Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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The world is run by C students
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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