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.
AL MCGUIREAnd if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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