I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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More Al McGuire Quotes
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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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’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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