“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.’ Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. 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.”
"Winning is overemphasized. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war"
- Al McGuire
Balance
"The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets."
- Al McGuire
Inspiration
"There's a lot of humiliation on the playground. Before you finally establish your reputation, you have to suffer a lot. I was humiliated so many times that I got used to it. But it was one of those things. You either subjected yourself to the humiliation or left the park."
- Al McGuire
Resilience
"Winning is overemphasized. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war."
- Al McGuire
Philosophy
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning from Mistakes
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."
- Confucius Kongzi
Learning from Mistakes
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
Learning from Mistakes
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Every defeat every heartbreak every loss contains its own seed, Its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
- Og Mandino
Learning from Mistakes