All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
AL MCGUIREThere’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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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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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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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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