The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
AL MCGUIREThat’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.
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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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The 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.
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