Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
AL MCGUIREI want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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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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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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The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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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.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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.
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You measure a player from the head up.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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