I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
AL MCGUIREI want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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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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God didn’t miss any of us.
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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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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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And if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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