I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
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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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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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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Make your life exciting.
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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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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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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 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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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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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I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.
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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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” 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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