And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
AL MCGUIREI want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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The world is run by C students
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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On how to make the game more exciting.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
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I 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.
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