And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
AL MCGUIREI’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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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 only important in war and surgery.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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