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.
AL MCGUIREOur guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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You better have great practices.
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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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Live in the moment that you are in.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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