If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIRELive every day as if it were Saturday night.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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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