Winning is only important in war and surgery.
AL MCGUIREYou’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.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
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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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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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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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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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