A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIREThe nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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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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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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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You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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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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When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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