On how to make the game more exciting.
AL MCGUIREDon’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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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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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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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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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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.
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