Al McGuire Quotes

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

In Washington, if you don't win, you lose. If you don't survive, you die. If you don't prosper, you fail.

I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.

Every great player is more outstanding in the victory, but has more pressure in defeats.

You've always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it's not failing; it's just the way it is. The last two years, we didn't win it, so it wasn't good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.

I just go out there and 'D' up. Everybody can make a layup, but everybody can't play 'D.' Just winning, that's all that matters, that's the bottom line. Get a win.

I am never happy if we are not winning.

I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

There is winning and there is misery.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

I love winning. I don't like losing.

The basic fact is that we won and he lost.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

Winners celebrate and losers mobilize.

When you fight -- fight to win

Losing is not fun. It's terrible to lose. But in order to have fun winning, you have to go thouigh some pain of losing.

I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.

The thing is, once you're in the Super Bowl, you want to win. As time goes on, you want to win more and more.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.