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.
AL MCGUIREHelp one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
More Al McGuire Quotes
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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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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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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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You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what’s in a box score.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Live in the moment that you are in.
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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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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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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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