I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
AL MCGUIREFifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
More Al McGuire Quotes
-
-
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
AL MCGUIRE -
You better have great practices.
AL MCGUIRE -
So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
AL MCGUIRE -
The world is run by C students
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
AL MCGUIRE -
The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
AL MCGUIRE -
Make your life exciting.
AL MCGUIRE -
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
AL MCGUIRE -
It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
AL MCGUIRE -
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
AL MCGUIRE -
Live in the moment that you are in.
AL MCGUIRE -
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.
AL MCGUIRE -
They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
AL MCGUIRE -
Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
AL MCGUIRE