Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
AL MCGUIREI don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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 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 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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You better have great practices.
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I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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