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 MCGUIREI 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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
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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.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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 called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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