If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
AL MCGUIREYou measure a player from the head up.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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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 don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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