Winning is only important in war and surgery.
AL MCGUIRELive in the moment that you are in.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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