Live in the moment that you are in.
AL MCGUIREMost people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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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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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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Make your life exciting.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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